Heightened aggressive behavior in mice with lifelong versus postweaning knockout of the oxytocin receptor

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-92

  Dhakar, Monica B ^a,b   Rich, Megan E ^a,b   Reno, Emily L ^a   Lee, Heon Jin ^a,b   Caldwell, Heather K ^a,b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

C fos; Immediate early gene; Intermale aggression; Oxt; Oxtr; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OXYTOCIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 84862260416     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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